Three teenagers stand accused of murdering Juneau resident Thornton, then 19, while he was visiting friends and family in Arkansas in July.

Earlier this month, the three defendants’ lawyers requested for the boys to be tried separately instead of together in one court case. The attorney for the youngest of the three also applied for a mental evaluation.

Last month, their lawyers filed motions requesting the case be dismissed or transferred to a juvenile division of circuit court, and to suppress statements the teens gave to investigators after the alleged incident, including statements that allege they were “laughing when [they] learned of (victim’s) death,” according to the court docket report.